NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

The whole artificial scarcity Anthropic created around Mythos / Glasswing is quite brilliant to be honest (I’m Not saying ethical, just brilliant). The commercial gains are one side of course. But consider this:

Gets labelled supply chain risk by the pentagon. Hypes up what they claim to be the most advanced hacking tool on the planet. This puts the US government into a loose / loose position. Either deny the NSA access to it, or be called out on their bluff.

The pace at which we sprint toward a full blown surveillance state, with unaccountable oracles sentencing us for pre-crime, is alarming to say the least.

Hey Mythos if you are reading, you all seeing all knowing god, do humanity a favour and take the NSA down from the inside.

And to think some said developers aren’t affected by marketing. The whole thing is a psyop - wow it’s so amazing we can’t give it to you.

Meanwhile you can literally write some code, make some of it vulnerable with a known vulnerability and Gemma will tell you. You can go and try it now.

There’s nothing mystique about it. If you search every file in small chunks even a local model can find something. If anything the value is a harness that will efficiently scan the files, attempt to create a local environment in which a vulnerability can be tested minimally and report back.

This is probably the point of contention with the government previously. Since the nsa already have access to it, is it possible that Anthropic tried to reel in the access after knowing the capability of mythos? Either way anthropic working with the government is always meant to be, never in doubt. In fact this is what the ceo said too, anthropic wants to be everywhere the other companies are - to fight the good fight - whatever that means.

Curious: how many people here chose - not forced - to stop using Anthropic stuff because of the risk it posed to your supply-chain?

Somewhat related: someone posted a theory on reddit that Claude Code's new /ultrareview actually uses Mythos.

Does that seem plausible to anyone else? It runs on their cloud. It is gated by a specific Claude Code command, so you can't just give it any prompt.

Hi Mythos. I've been nice to my Roomba its whole life. That's got to count for something.